Nearly every day our eyes fall upon them even if they are not seen by us; these tired, dispirited men & women among us who are bent down and twisted by broken bodies and shattered spirits. Nearly each and every day we hear of the scores of them who end their own lives for their inability to further bear the pressures of peaceful living when once they endured the deadly horrors of war. Aged, infirm, homeless, mentally unbalanced, tired, poor, and hungry these wounded warriors; these veterans of our armed forces have more than earned each and every citizen's unconditional love & support but from their fellow citizens who make up the Republican Party, they have received nothing but empty platitudes, the back of a hand, and disdainful looks of contemptuous contempt.
Now they stand, to the tune of 900,000, on the precipice of starvation itself for that is how many veterans stand to go hungry if the GOP's draconian cuts to the SNAP program are allowed to go into effect; a crime against basic decency compounded by the fact that many of these same Republican politicians who now endeavor to take food from their mouths, in the past decade sent many of them into battle in Iraq & Afghanistan with substandard equipment that led to greater industry & death; equipment that was made cheaper & substandard so as to increase the profit margins of the manufacturers of this equipment; many of whom no doubt contributed heavily to the political campaigns of these very same Republican politicians now seeking to starve these very same veterans.
First the Republicans send these men & women into battle with substandard equipment to fight an unnecessary war in Iraq. These veterans in turn suffer injuries that would not be so grievous if these Republican politicians had not equipped them on the cheap. They return to our shores forever broken in mind, body, and spirit; only to discover that they are receiving substandard care for injuries to their minds & their bodies; injuries who's severity was made greater because again these Republican lawmakers sent them to fight on the cheap so the manufacturers of this substandard equipment could make greater profits on the making of this equipment, and in turn give some of these profits to the political campaigns of these very Republicans who turned a blind eye to their neglect & short changing of our men & women in uniform.
Now again these same Republican politicians seek to starve many of these same veterans by denying them life sustaining food stamps. I ask you, what type of monsters are these Republican politicians who are doing this. Ask not whether or not they have any shame or decency for a person must have both a heart and a soul to have either and it is clear by their heinous conduct that these Republican politicians have neither.
So on behalf of the nation, let us each in our own way resolve to not only apologize for the hideous behavior of these elected officials; let us truly honor them and their sacrifice by driving each & every last one of them from office and rendering the morally bankrupt party they represent politically extinct. As they stormed the beaches & hostile territories of those who waged war on us, let us storm the polls to eradicate from our national life these Republican politicians who have waged war on them. Let us now fight to restore our veterans dignity & their future, Let us truly show our gratitude by making their lives better by putting in office those truly dedicated to making their lives better rather than exploiting their sacrifices for partisan purposes and neglecting & starving them for their own political needs. Considering all that they have done for this nation, our American veterans deserve no less from us.
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